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Secret Service agents should go to the movies more often. At least since the 1996 sci-fi film, "Independence Day," in which an alien spaceship the size of Los Angeles incinerates the White House, attacks on the lovely old executive mansion have been a recurring cinematic theme. Last year, two movies with remarkably similar plots featured lone men saving the president and what was left of his official home. In "White House Down," the hero is a Washington, D.C. cop with aspirations to be a Secret Service agent who fights off a band of domestic terrorists. In "Olympus Has Fallen," the hero is a desk-bound Secret Service agent who battles a horde of nasty North...

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